Just Another Heather

Gross pay is still $0 but the healthcare deduction for the last two pay periods is showing on my LES - both on deductions & benefits paid by government.

Mice & wood rats. Those are my old house visitors when the rain starts to flood the mouse runs and the summer nests are failing.

Feed store I go to got a little strange a few years ago. Was looking at ownership of local feed stores recently for a different reason and realized that “strange” happened about the same time as private equity purchase.

Graphic done in the style of a cross stitch sampler that reads: “Blessed Samhain - the veil is thin and so is my damn patience”

He got himself into this mess and he can get himself out of it somewhere else. Not having another place to stay is his problem.

When I was in the Navy there was a max number of braids you could have - which meant no box braids that could be pinned up in a bun (which the Army allowed at the time).

I don’t know what to label us as but grandparents moved here with their 7 kids because grampa’s cousin was already here with her 7+ kids (who mostly stayed in the area). They’re cousins. Don’t ask how unless you want a diagram & a history lesson.

My great-gramma and her brother ended up in foster homes and at least one time in an orphanage when their mother (single parent) didn’t have money to care for them.

I’m in a small town and I have cousins local to me that are of the “let me draw a diagram, it’s faster” for how we’re related courtesy of siblings over 100 years ago.

Mary Janes! Yes, I’m the weirdo who loves them (but I also liked the molasses for the cow feed so 🤷🏻‍♀️)

I would certainly try it. I like pistachios & chocolate. I like walnuts & chocolate. And I think I’ve had trail mix with walnuts & pistachios.

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I saw this at Oregon Flock & Fiber last weekend and absolutely need to share. It’s meant to be embroidered (it’s available as a kit or just a tote) but it’s just beautiful as it is (or maybe colored with fabric markers?)

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Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon was established almost 100 years ago (1926)

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Smelly horse, farting horse, what have they been feeding you? Smelly horse, farting horse, it’s not your fault.

I try to keep the fun in dysfunctional but that tripped a tactile memory. Sorry.

New fear unlocked: one of those loaded with burger sauce (pink with pickle chunks). I have milked cows and mastitis chunks just make me 🤢.

Not dealing with canvas but our phone systems were having massive issues due to a certain company’s system failure

YouTube video by Aden Ng The True Story of AltNPS

"The problem with AltNPS and other unverified Alts like them is not that they are scams. It's that they are selling you shovels on a cliff edge and telling you to dig to reach salvation, all the while reducing the reputation of the people who are actually trying to save you from falling off."

If AI worked the way they want to convince us that it works, they’d be trying to keep it from us not pushing it in Tupperware parties.

Close-up image of computer monitors. Background image is blurry & the silhouette of an ant that is wandering between the screen layers is visible.

It’s that time of year again and the ants have decided that it’s cold outside & they don’t like that. They’ve also discovered electronics this year. This jerk is *inside* my monitor & I’m fighting the urge to squish (because it’s *my* monitor).

Oh lovely. So that’s what the phone system “upgrade” was.

Even tiny little Junction City, Oregon had No Kings protesters today.

A Watchmen parody in which Dr. Manhattan is on Mars thinking, "It is 182. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office. It's 2010. I am twenty-nine years old. Tron bombs at the box office. It is 2025. I am forty-four years old. Tron bombs at the box office."

Best cartoon of the week for movie nerds.

The amount of laws that will have to be written to plug all of the things that they exploited will be what’s going to make me gobsmacked

Have they fucking priced childcare and the health insurance increase to add a kid?

I miss where I was at with DOI (been gone for a while) & worry about the folks who are still there.

Yay PDX.

Because this is what 10-year-old you probably would have said you’d do when asked what you’d do if you won a million dollars. 😁

I’ll take that over Lesser Celandine. My knotweed is actually contained. The celandine is another story and it laughs at herbicides.